- Datawocky: More data usually beats better algorithms
- The Dominance of Small Code Contributions
- Links to a study of a big open-source corpus, showing that small code contributions dominate by number (though not by total volume).
- Academic Earth – Video lectures from the world’s top scholars
- “Thousands of video lectures from the world’s top scholars.” – Very interesting. Found a few problems, but this has potential.
- BBC NEWS | Calls for open source government
- The new White House has asked Scott McNealy (Sun) to prepare a paper on open source.
- Ruby on Rails on Vimeo
- A beautiful and informative visualization of Ruby on Rails commit history. Make sure to watch it in HD, in full-screen mode. After you’ve watched it for a bit, it’s worth skipping forward to 4:45 and watching the unbelievable explosion of activity that takes place when they moved to GitHub.
- Open Access, Open Data. Open Research?
- Great summary talk about open science, from Cameron Neylon.
- Is massively collaborative mathematics possible? « Gowers’s Weblog
- A fascinating post from Tim Gowers, with a plan for some action.
- Winning the Gnu
- Microsoftie Joey deVilla buys a gnu from Richard Stallman. No animals were harmed in the making of this presentation…
- Dive into Python 3
- New version of a classic introduction to Python, by Mark Pilgrim, adapted for Python 3. Just the table of contents at present, with the content to be gradually filled in.
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Hi, Michael. Thank you for the heads-up on the slide show, “Open Access, Open Data. Open Research?†That is indeed an outstanding presentation. I loved Jean-Claude Bradley’s astute and pithy, “Communicate first. Standardize second.” As someone in the medical library world, I do get a little impatient with the librarian mindset that nothing is valuable until it is peer reviewed, cataloged and larded with metadata.
By the way, there is an interesting discussion in the life scientists’ room of FriendFeed about post- publication peer review. I would be very interested in what you and Jean-Claude might have to say on that thought-provoking question.
There’s a very interesting diversity of responses in that FriendFeed thread! I’m a bit pushed for time right now, and haven’t had time to participate. I am still planning to write a followup to my earlier post on peer review, where I’m likely to address this question in detail.
Looking forward to that. Interestingly, I just did some quick googling on the term “post-publication peer review” and came across the very useful blog of your colleague Cameron Neylon http://blog.openwetware.org/scienceintheopen/
I would like to suggest that both of you add Twitter buttons to your blogs. That would it so much easier to follow the extremely interesting things you both have to say and would facilitate the wider dissemination of your writings.
Hope – Cameron’s blog is terrific. Take a look also at the blogs of some of the other subscribers to the Science 2.0 room; there’s a lot of good stuff in there.